Coronavirus and Work From Home

Sharing an article by Sonia Singal for better reach

First sharing an interesting website

A Swedish company has created a website for usual sounds which you hear during office hours. If you are missing ’office environment’ browse this site. It's extremely fun to hear these sounds and you have choice to increase and decrease voices via filter (these filters are perplexing at usability level)

https://soundofcolleagues.com/#  

Coming to Mental Health and WFH

The Covid19 induced WorkFromHome is causing a Mental Health Crisis. According to a global study of over 2,700 employees across more than 10 industries undertaken by Qualtrics and SAPduring March and April 2020. The results are startling. Since the outbreak of the pandemic, 75% of people say they feel more socially isolated, 67% of people report higher stress, 57% are feeling greater anxiety, and 53%say they feel more emotionally exhausted.40% of people say their company has not even asked them how they’re doing since the pandemic began. People in this group are 38% more likely to say their mental health has declined since the outbreak of the pandemic. Also because WorkFromHome is completely against our culture of Boss actively managing colleagues' work hours - there is a massive trust deficit and the period has become more stressful. Or imagine a consultant working for a multi-million dollar consulting assignment from Home. It pains the client to pay Rs 10,000/ hour for WorkFromHome. Because WFH is holiday for most people

 Finance professionals surveyed by CAJobPortal.com have reported working 7 days a week for 12+ hours and the stress indeed is taking a toll. And since you are accounting for losses instead of profits and the graphs (except for FMCG companies) are in the red, its indeed a situation doing the variance analysis

Add the reports in the media about layoffs everywhere. Only superhumans can escape the stress

As a senior People Professional, we recommend a simple 1st step, 

Just: “Are you okay?” And reassure your people that things will be fine.

Let’s approach it with compassion, honesty, and openness. 

However cliched as it may sound, we need to re-affirm light at the end of the tunnel. Will emerge from this as better leaders, better people, and better companies.

Thanks & Regards!!

Sonia Singal : CA Job Portal